Of the many factors that have contributed to Kansas State’s recent domination of Kansas, the Wildcats’ special-teams supremacy might be the most salient. So when KSU fumbled the opening kickoff of Saturday’s 123rd Sunflower Showdown, leading to an immediate touchdown for the Jayhawks, it certainly could have seemed like an omen that KU was about to snap its 16-game losing streak at the hands of its ...
After making the Sunflower Showdown competitive in both 2023 and 2024 but losing in heartbreaking fashion both times, the most conclusive sign of progress for the Kansas program on Saturday afternoon would evidently have been to actually win the game. Instead, the Jayhawks took “a major step backwards” on Saturday by losing 42-17 to Kansas State, as KU coach Lance Leipold put it. “We were thoroughly ...
Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer vowed to sing the national anthem for Friday’s match at Allen Fieldhouse if the Jayhawks could draw 10,000 fans. KU likely won’t get there — athletic director Travis Goff said on Wednesday that attendance would clear 5,000, but he wasn’t sure if it would be six or seven thousand or somewhere in that range — but Ulmer’s pipes will be tested regardless. He said in a ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team continued its recent success on the recruiting trail with the commitment of Luke Barnett on Friday afternoon. Barnett, a 6-foot-4, 180-pound shooting guard who attends athletic powerhouse Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, announced his decision to join the Jayhawks as part of a CBS Sports livestream. He is a four-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite in the ...
Much of the attention in 19th-ranked Kansas’ 90-82 exhibition victory on the road at No. 11 Louisville centered on guard Darryn Peterson, and even when the games start to count, that will undoubtedly be the case for much of the 2025-26 season. Peterson was indeed exceptional in the first half on Friday night, and the cushion he gave the Jayhawks made for a rather stress-free second period. But he also ...
Of all the close losses that the Kansas football team endured during its 2024 season, perhaps none stuck in the Jayhawks’ craw more than their 29-27 defeat at Kansas State on Oct. 26, 2024. It was the closest Sunflower Showdown by margin since 1993 and the Jayhawks’ best chance in recent years of snapping their ignominious losing streak in the rivalry. Instead, a series of pivotal mistakes throughout the ...